Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not?

From	ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject	Re: 13.3" 2012 MacBook Pro's HDD dying confirmed or not?
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage, comp.sys.mac.system
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Date	2015-09-28 17:33 -0500

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> That would let you remove your DVD drive and install both the SSD the HD
> into the MacBook, and create a Fusion Drive, which combines the relative
> speed of an SSD, but with as much storage space as you want. This is
> what I did with my MacBook Pro 17-inch, and I have to say it's quite
> wonderful. 

> I installed a 240 GB Mercury Extreme Pro SSD into the main drive bay of
> my MacBook Pro, removed the DVD drive and put it in the box, installed
> the Apple-supplied Hitachi 750 GB hard drive into OWC Data Doubler
> chassis, and installed it into the DVD bay. The whole job took me about
> 20 minutes, tops. Instructions for everything were included with the
> Data Doubler. Then I used online instructions (below) to create a Fusion
> Drive, which gave me a whopping 977 GB of lightning quick storage space!

> Conservatively, a 240 GB OWC SSD is around $120, a 750 GB HD is around
> $60, and the Data Doubler is around $30, for a total of $210, which
> would give you nearly 1 TB of very fast storage - best of both worlds.
> Not bad at all for that price! ; ) (In my case, the 750 GB HD was working
> fine, so I avoided that cost.)

> Creating the Fusion Drive amounts to simply issuing a couple of commands
> in a terminal window:

> <http://www.macworld.com/article/2014011/storage-drives/how-to-make-your-own-fusion-drive.html>

> Then you just install OS X and restore from backup like normal.

> Highly recommended if you want blazing SSD speeds with tons of storage
> space in a MacBook.

I doubt he would need that much disk space wioth his current almost 200 
GB of disk space. I think 240 is enough for him. Later on, he would buy 
a new MBP that would have a bigger disk drive.
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